Radical White Wing

WASHINGTON — Since politics in 2019 is the art of making the other party look worse, President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was a partisan home run.

It was a solid speech that showed Trump reaching across the aisle by proposing policies such as paid family leave that should be wildly popular with Democrats.

But it also showed his playful side. In his third address to a joint session of Congress, Trump was downright jovial; when he disagreed, he wasn’t personal.

Which left Democrats looking like the obstinate and petulant party.

Start with the suffragette white worn by female Democratic House members. Former Democratic San Francisco supervisor Angela Alioto wrote on Facebook, that “if you HAVE to dress alike,” pick red “for power and fearlessness.” As it was, “they looked like a group of nurses.”

I would add, nurses who work in an institution that smells like disinfectant.

It is telling that four female Democratic senators eying the White House — Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand — chose more flattering colors.

When Trump touted the good news on unemployment for people with disabilities, C-SPAN turned its lens on House members. I saw more ladies in white scratching their heads than clapping. Ditto for when Trump talked about doubling the child tax credit.

The left rightly can deride Trump for being obstinate and petulant. Tuesday night, Trump was in good humor and Democrats came across like Trump on an angry morning Twitter tear.

Many — I am one — have criti-